Setting environment variables

[Alexander Toresson]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:31:32 -0800
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Alexander Toresson wrote:
> 
> >I've been trying to set some environment variables. I've added them 
> >to .bash_profile in my home directory, like this:
> >
> >PATH=/root/euphoria/bin:$PATH
> >EUDIR=/root/euphoria
> >BROWSER=dillo
> >
> >export PATH EUDIR BROWSER
> >
> >But it still doesn't work! The xfce help complains that it cannot find
> >any browser, and the euphoria programming language cannot find its
> >include files. I've also added the environment vars to my .bashrc,
> >with no success. I also cannot see them in any console or console 
> >emulator by typing "set|more".
> >
> >What am I doing wrong?
> >
> Depending on how your login manager is set up, bash may be run as a 
> non-login shell, which means some startup files (for bash) don't get 
> sourced.  Actually, bash may not be run at all (sh may be instead).  So 
> you have a few options - .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .profile.  You can 
> try all three, or you can just copy $sysconfdir/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc to 
> ~/.config/xfce4, and stick your env var settings at the top of that file.
> 
>     -brian

I've added it into ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile and 
~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc, but still no luck.

Regards, Alexander Toresson